زغر

Ottoman Turkish

From Old Anatolian Turkish. The origin is uncertain. Compare Proto-Kartvelian *ʒ₁aɣl- (“dog”) on one end and Proto-Basque *zakur (“dog, hound”), Corsican ghjacaru (“dog”), Sardinian giagaru (“dog”) on the other.

زغر • (zağar)

Turkish: zağar
→ Albanian: zagar
→ Middle Armenian: զաղառ (zaġaṙ), զաղար (zaġar)
- Armenian: զաղար (zaġar)
→ Aromanian: zãgár, zãghár
→ Bulgarian: зага́р (zagár), зага́р (zagár)
→ Byzantine Greek: ζαγάριον (zagárion), ζαγάριν (zagárin)
- Greek: ζαγάρι (zagári)
→ Macedonian: загар (zagar)
→ Serbo-Croatian: за̀га̄р / zàgār

Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869–1871) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 605b
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zağar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1614. ZǍGÁR sb. m. (Basme, Miha, Pascu), ZAYAR (Nicolaidi)”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 192
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زغر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1009

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Readings
Dari reading^?	ziğir

زغر • (zeğer) (Dari)

Schapka, Ulrich, Volk, Otto Heinrich (1979) “Ein Verzeichnis von in Afghanistan gebräuchlichen Pflanzennamen”, in Afghanistan Journal, volume 6, number 1, Nr. 215 Linum usitatissimum, page 7